Quotes 41 till 51 of 51.
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There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.
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There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.
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There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.
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Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) Ch. 22 -
Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production, they are better critics than authors.
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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
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You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery.
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No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.
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Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
Epigrams (1911) p.358
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